Monitoring Your Service Providers

Outsourcing has been the rage for years now, and the outsourcing of computing resources to the cloud leads the way. And why not? It allows you to increase efficiency (focus on core business activities instead of running a datacenter), cut costs (you don’t have...

Sub-Capacity Pricing and Capping 101

Soft capping, using IBM’s Defined Capacity (DC) or Group Capacity (GC) options, is an effective method to help control software costs.  An even more effective method is to automate the limits of these caps based on application consumption and budgetary requirements....

Mainframe Mobile Challenges and Solutions

The need for modern mobile solutions for mainframe data centers Today most CIOs, CTOs and IT experts are aware of the impact of digital transformation (DX) on their respective businesses and IT organizations. Disruptive technologies like Big Data, business analytics,...

DirectionIT Issue 9

Read the latest issue here. Though this may sound like a cliché, our world is changing at a rapid rate. And with that change comes an entirely new way of interacting with the world. We live in an era where everything from personal time, to social issues, to politics,...